The Effect of the Short Fibers in a Cotton on Its Processing Efficiency and Product Quality

Abstract

Print cloth fabrics (80 × 80) were produced from yarns spun from cotton containing different percentages of short fiber. In the case of all fabric properties measured, with the exception of crease angle, increasing short fiber content resulted in significant changes adverse to quality, i.e., in decreased strength, elongation, flex abrasion, and tearing strength. Subjective properties such as appearance and hand were also degraded as the short fiber content increased. The above conclusions appiy equally to fabrics in the grey, bleached, mercerized and dyed, and resin-treated states. No conclusions could be drawn as to the effect of short fibers on weaving performance, because of the limited quantity of experimental material available. !

The Utilization of Diplodia-Damaged Boll-Rot Cotton

“…However, the gradual upward trend of filling crimp is somewhat out of line. The deterioration of filling-wise resistance to flex abrasion with increases in the amount of Diplodia fiber is in agreement with previous findings [3] showing that this fabric property is highly sensitive to the short fiber content (percent by weight less than i in. in length) of a cotton.…”

“…The trend of the curve of filling resistance to tearing was, as with resistance to flex abrasion, an effect of the presence of increasing amounts of short fibers (Diplodia lint) in the blends. This effect, also, has been previously noted [3].…”